Movies
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Woody Harrelson goes live from London Thursday, talks 'Star Wars'Jan 17, 2017 5:00 am - LONDON - Woody Harrelson is trying to do something that's never been done before, although he's starting to realize why his feat would be a first. The American actor pla...
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Brilliant 'Deadpool' Oscars campaign roots for the underdogJan 16, 2017 5:00 am - Few modern Hollywood ad campaigns have ever maintained a long-term, multi-layered narrative better than "Deadpool." And ahead of the Oscar-nom announcements on Jan. 24, ...
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A sequel-free, no-superhero peek at 2017's moviesJan 15, 2017 6:17 am - As a new year dawns, we're greeted with more of the same from Hollywood: superhero movies, sequels, reboots and origin stories. But that's not all there will be in 2017....
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'Hidden Figures' keeps orbit at top; Affleck, Scorsese flop
Jan 15, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Labors of love, one from Martin Scorsese, the other from Ben Affleck, proved costly at a casualty strewn weekend box office where the uplifting NASA drama "Hi...
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Bening shines as '70s mom in '20th Century Women'Jan 13, 2017 5:00 am - Way too many films are heavy on plot and exposition, light on atmosphere and character development. It's safe to say "20th Century Women" isn't one of them. Indeed, this...
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Gire recalls Gene Kelly interview on 'Singin'' co-star Debbie ReynoldsJan 13, 2017 5:00 am - Gene Kelly on 'Singin'' "Singin' in the Rain," one of the greatest movie musicals ever made, returns to the silver screen at 2 and 7 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 15, and Wednesd...
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Better say 'bye to 'Bye Bye Man'Jan 12, 2017 5:00 am - The newest movie villain to haunt your nightmares is a pasty demonic spirit who looks like Voldemort and dresses like the Grim Reaper. Stalking his victims, he jumps out...
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'Patriots Day' starts slow, but picks up speedJan 12, 2017 5:00 am - Now in his third docudrama with director Peter Berg - after starring roles in "Lone Survivor" and "Deepwater Horizon" that showed less versatility than virtual interchan...
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Thin characters, dumbed-down script stall 'Monster Trucks'Jan 12, 2017 5:00 am - The idea for this boy-and-his-blob fantasy adventure reportedly came from the then-4-year-old son of Paramount Film Group President Adam Goodman shortly before the studi...
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Affleck takes himself too seriously in ponderous 'Night'Jan 11, 2017 9:00 am - The first thing that director Ben Affleck should have suggested to his screenwriter, Ben Affleck, would be to lose the voice-over narration lifted from his source materi...